He was not screaming now, but white as death and staring with fearful eyes at the bed, on which the bedclothes were pulled back, with Meekie peering over it.
A hysterical woman sprang up screaming shrilly, and had to be taken away; a solitary sea gull, its plumage shining with a weird blueness in the electric light, chose this moment to fly low along the deck, crying its wailing cry.
We know the bather can jump out of the scalding water when he likes, but there he is, with clouds of steam rising about him, screaming in deadly terror for "somebody" to come to his rescue.
The touches of cloud and sea, together with the screaming gulls, are indicated with the facile skill peculiar to Leech.
The high priest himself, utterly intoxicated and screaming with a voice like a wild beast in agony, fell backwards across the marble vase at the foot of the mortar and his hand and arm plashed into the dregs of the fermented Haoma.
But this was not the object of the Reception, and in a moment more the screaming would begin again, the voices growing higher and higher, until, if the roof were taken off, one vast shriek would go up to heaven.
Then the birds would catch sight of the travellers and fly screaming away, leaving the tree dark-green and fruitless as before.
A flock of paroquets were screaming like little green demons just above him, and several alligators gave him a passing glance as they floundered heavily in the water below; but the red man cared not for such trifles.
The innkeeper had one child, who, in its little shift, wasscreaming on the table where they had just dined.
But in these days you often find a screaming gentleman and a profane lady--and there's a howdy-do!
At that identical moment Gaylord, alias the screaming gentleman, had been summoned to Aunt Belle's bedside.
But all he said was: "Profane ladies and screaming gentlemen.
He reached for a brazier beside him, caught up the fire and plunged it deep into the bowl of water, screaming something.
A minute later, the others were back, screaming out the news that the manual controls could not be moved--could not even be touched.
In seconds, more than half of those who had waited were screaming upwards toward the hole in the sky.
Chairs or tables were overthrown, there was a smashing of glass, a rapid scuffling of feet, and the screaming and howling as of a menagerie on fire.
As the birds grew drowsy the frogs came out to spend a happy night on the margins of the pools and the brooks, until their joyful screaming and croaking was a universal chorus.
Yet are they all terribly energetic, wailing forth prayers almost incessantly, or screaming spasmodically an appeal to charity, and adding to the dreadful din by jingling coppers in tin cups.
The nightingale's rapturous song has become a lazy twitter; the bird has done with courtship; it has a family in immediate prospect, if not one already screaming for food, and the musician has half lost his passion for music.
Just then little Mildred and Cho-Cho came screamingfrom the churchyard where they had been playing happily.
And the screamingfrom the Forest is incessant so that you simply don't hear the shell (now very close indeed).
Shrapnel whizzed overhead--sometimes crying, like an echo, in the far distance, sometimes screaming with the rage of a hurt animal close at hand.
One man dying in the wood tore at his stomach with an unceasing gesture and the air came through his mouth like gas screaming through an "escape" hole.
How lamentably insufficient our three carts appeared standing there in the road with this screaming Forest on every side of one!
He leaped back, the young ladies ran screamingaway and there would have been a great scene were it not that at the time there were no other persons in that particular department of the museum.
Look into the pockets of these gentlemen, and put gags into the mouths of those senhoras, who are screaming loud enough to be heard across the forest, if they do not choose to be silent, and to deliver up their trinkets quietly.
Guns are fired in the street, people, screaming and howling, are running up and down the stairs; at last there is a loud knocking at our door.
The head of a soured and malignant-looking old maid, whose favourite parrot isscreaming in her ear.
The next morning the jackal took an empty kalsi and marched towards the village drumming on the kalsi with all his might, and the kite flew along overhead screaming as loud as he could.
When her husband's relatives saw her screaming and crying they were angry and said that she must have killed her father-in-law by witchcraft, for she did not sit by the corpse and cry but went to the end of the garden.
For hours the naked men worked, screamingand shouting under the lights.
There was a sudden rush of air followed by a screaming whirling sound, and the entire place became lit with dim yellowish light.
Manguino raved, screaming to Orren to stop reading the words out loud to him.
He lifted the palms of his hands to his sweaty face desperately trying to keep from screaming out his tortured agonies.
Macdonough's gun-crew were loading with solid shot this time, and, as soon as they got the range, a ball went screaming down towards the fleeing Tripolitan.
To add to the horror of the situation, just at this moment a ball from a new enemy came screaming just over the head of Paul Jones, and the wind of it knocked off his hat.
Yes, he'd been heard screaming for his life, and presently the men outside drew off the hounds and was able to get into conversation with Amos and larn the rights of his fearful story.
They heard Polly screaming the top of her head off one side the river; while a muffled noise, like a bull-frog croaking, came from the ferry steps at Green way.
He pointed into one corner of his little cubby-hole, and then the tears came flooding his cheeks and he stopped screaming and clung to his mother and wept as if his heart would break.
Revel saw her lips curl slightly; she didn't believe she could be hurt, even though she had a moment before been screaming at the death of her gods.
He waited, crouched, keeping his eyes on them; and then they were rising again, leaving him there in the valley with a screaming girl in a silver gown.
With a noise like a rock hurled into a rotten melon, the pick tore through cloth and flesh to lodge in Ewyo's belly, half its head buried in the screaming squire.
It was not only the old lion argent that was roaring in my ear, but all the eagles of the Caesars seemed flapping and screaming in pursuit of me.
If you must know all about me--' "At the same instant one of the poor women sitting on the long bench stood up, screaming aloud and pointing at him with her finger.
After the screaminghad ceased, Edward again composed himself to sleep, when he was wakened up by a sudden rush over his legs.
In this way I had nearly reached the highest point of Gamrie Head without meeting with anything but the common tenants of these rocky braes, when my attention was attracted by the screaming of a number of birds at the bottom of the cliff.
I fired, and he came down with a broken wing, screamingas he fell into the water.
